Hocus Pocus is a 1/6th scale Garage Kit from Nude Resin. She won Best Figure – 2nd place at JerseyFest 2013, Silver at JerseyFest 2013 and Bronze at Wonderfest 2013.

Since it is the start of a new year, I thought I’d mention some of the more memorable Conventions and Modeling Contests that I attended last year.

In September I attended JerseyFest. This convention was AWESOME. Lots of friendly folks, lots of great classes and seminars. All of the artists attending shared tips and tricks and were all around friendly people. I also did a demo on small scale miniature painting.

This is a show well worth attending! Next year’s dates are set for August 1st through August 3rd. If you want to know more about their show, or info for next years show, you can find out more here:

I hope everyone has a fun and enjoyable Halloween!!

I will be demoing various painting techniques at JerseyFest on Friday, September 13th and then demoing for the rest of the weekend out of the Morland Studios vendor booth.

I will also be judging the Morland Studios sponsored award, “Best Fictional Miniature” in the Modeling Contest. This award has a cash prize of $100.00 for first place, $50.00 for 2nd, and $50.00 for 3rd place. The size restriction is 15mm to 120mm and can be either a figure, bust or vehicle.

The base was painted using the pointillism style and then each dot was altered to look more like random mosaic tiles.

I painted this large scale figure from Reaper miniatures last year. Because she is supposed to be an animated ships figurehead, I went with a weather worn and paint cracking look for her. She is 11.5″ tall with a 9.5″ wingspan and was also an interesting experiment in crackling techniques.

I am very late in posting this, but better late than never. These are the more memorable conventions and modeling/painting contests that I attended in 2012.

On May 4th-5th, I attended the 2012 Gulf Coast Model and Figure Expo and ran a demo class on Saturday. The show started Friday with a bad movie night (think Mystery Science Theater 2k!) followed by a full Saturday of seminars, vendors and, of course, their painting contest. This convention was a lot of fun to attend and had a fairly large turnout for their show and painting contest.

From the contest, the results of my entries were:

Best Gaming Miniature

Silver, My entire gaming entry display

Also in May, I attended Wonderfest and had a blast. If you don’t know what Wonderfest is, it is, as they say, “THE annual expo for model and toy collectors of s-f, horror & comics subjects–especially plastic kits & garage kits”. There is a ton of things to do from demos, lectures, vendors, The Amazing Model Contest, movies, after hours events, and much more. It’s a must see show if you are into larger kits and builds.